life for yourself and your family. Finally, use the “swish” technique ten or
more times to direct and program your power movies.
At this point you are feeling great, so you’ve worked yourself into a peak
emotional state. With the music still playing, jump, smile and shout until you
feel fantastic! Now you are ready to listen to English. Play an easy English
audio. Ideally, you will play a listen-and-answer mini story, followed by
several point-of-view stories. As you listen, shout your answers to the
questions and use big movements and gestures. If, at any point, you notice
your energy dropping, play the music again and create a peak emotional
state. Then start listening to English again.
This whole morning ritual might take only thirty minutes. You start your
day feeling great, improving your English. At that point, it’s probably time to
go to work, or school. Use your travel time to listen to more English. Since
you’ll probably be around other people, this is a good time to listen quietly to
an audiobook.
At lunch you’ll have more free time, so spend another thirty minutes or
more listening to a mini-story or point-of-view story. If you have privacy,
shout your answers just as you did at home.
Travel home is another opportunity for more easy English listening.
Perhaps you repeat that same audiobook chapter from the morning. If you
stay at home with your kids, find moments of listening time when your kids
are playing or napping. If you walk somewhere, or stand in line, listen to
English. Use every available free moment to listen.
When you are home in the evening, do more English listening. Ideally,
choose the same time every night and once again listen to the same mini
story and point-of-view stories in a peak state. This might take you another
thirty minutes. Go into your room if necessary to shout out the answers and
really put your full energy and emotion into it.
Then you might use the movie technique, studying and practicing a movie
scene. And even when you are doing other tasks, such as cooking dinner,
always have an English audio playing in the background. Surround yourself
with the sounds of English all day long.
